If you haven't been following the current explosion of video gen models, including all the content you see on social media, you should pay attention.
I have no doubt in my mind that right now, in August of 2026, given a couple of weeks, an amateur with a high-end last-gen GPU or somebody with maybe a thousand bucks worth of AI credits, given a good amount of exploration/tinkering to fill the gaps that GenAI cannot currently do, (which is storyboarding, screenwriting, characters, and all the actual creative stuff), can crank out a high quality 1h+ feature film with only minor uncanny artifacts.
The reason why this isn't happening en masse right now is that most creatives are probably not focused on generating feature films, but rather content that's more digestible by social media users.
I would expect to start seeing a LOT of development in the upcoming months as some form of commodification where generated content can be both high quality and tailored to the user.
Southern California Edison utility district famously required their office staff to train offshored support staff, and then did replace those office staff with the newly trained offshore workers
Southern California Edison IT workers ‘beyond furious’ over H-1B replacements - Computerworld 2015 -- The incident sparked legislative interest in California, with lawmakers proposing bills to restrict utilities from outsourcing critical infrastructure work and prompting at least 11 U.S. senators to request federal investigations into the use of H-1B visas in such outsourcing deals.
What I am curious to learn is how many episodes of a TV series made by real actors it will take for an "AI" to eventually make perfect extensions
ie. feed it every episode of the original Star Trek series, at some point "AI" is going to be advanced enough to write a new episode and simulate all the characters perfectly
anime and animation in theory will be even easier to do perfectly?
the question is can it do it perfectly with just a dozen episodes? or does three dozen make it better?
because once that happens, that's all the networks will pay for, after all they are only about the commercials they can insert into content regardless of source
and yes viewers will eventually accept it the same way they won't quit X or meta, etc. regardless of how horrible they become or the sub-human behavior of the owners
on their own computer using open weight chinese models?
More seriously
1)
>users will generate their own
some people write fanfic, most just watch/read instead.
2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebel_Without_a_Crew explains how film maker will film, with whatever they have. AI will enable some people to make what is not financially feasible right now for a single person to do.
'Unique' movie/stories creation will continue.
And like with the rest of things AI can do, the question is more 'who's going to pay for person-made vs "algorithmically optimized AI generated story'.
Same question we have of 'AI generated code' vs 'this code was written by a person'.
Sora was QUICKLY shut down due to the astronomical cost. On what basis do you claim that using language models to generate feature films would be cheap?
This is exactly how I see it. Most companies participating in such games are digging their own grave long term, because of fear of someone else doing that
I don't think it will ever be able to make perfect extensions, because there is no perfect extension. Part of creative work is human imperfections. Part of me being invested in a series is because I know it will end at some point.
If there's infinite star trek episodes, I don't care to watch it. I'd rather spin a fidget spinner instead.
you are reacting as if the content is going to be robotic
except "AI" doesn't have any original thoughts of its own, everything is going to be originally from a human source
it might be a concept from some rare book they fed it and destroyed after, it might be a concept from thousands of "fan fic" they hoovered up all over the internet by scraping forums illegally
you say you won't watch it except human behavior already demonstrates there are millions of other people who will
it's an unfortunate future but an easily predictable one
all about making cheap content to insert ads, the ads are the point, not the content
like product placement in a $100 million action movie, except soon they will be able to make the movie for $100 instead of $100 million and most won't know the difference
I'm sorry but it sounds like you don't have a very good understanding of what art is or what role it plays in human existence. What kind of grades did you get in English class as a kid?
I'm not a fan, but it's a massive insult to compare a show written by a team of writers like The Big Bang Theory to AI generated TV slop for illiterate retards.
If you haven't been following the current explosion of video gen models, including all the content you see on social media, you should pay attention.
I have no doubt in my mind that right now, in August of 2026, given a couple of weeks, an amateur with a high-end last-gen GPU or somebody with maybe a thousand bucks worth of AI credits, given a good amount of exploration/tinkering to fill the gaps that GenAI cannot currently do, (which is storyboarding, screenwriting, characters, and all the actual creative stuff), can crank out a high quality 1h+ feature film with only minor uncanny artifacts.
The reason why this isn't happening en masse right now is that most creatives are probably not focused on generating feature films, but rather content that's more digestible by social media users.
I would expect to start seeing a LOT of development in the upcoming months as some form of commodification where generated content can be both high quality and tailored to the user.
All I want is Seinfeld Forever
No they are not. They are helping rip off delusional investors who think this will amount to more than slop.
Southern California Edison utility district famously required their office staff to train offshored support staff, and then did replace those office staff with the newly trained offshore workers
Southern California Edison IT workers ‘beyond furious’ over H-1B replacements - Computerworld 2015 -- The incident sparked legislative interest in California, with lawmakers proposing bills to restrict utilities from outsourcing critical infrastructure work and prompting at least 11 U.S. senators to request federal investigations into the use of H-1B visas in such outsourcing deals.
Relevant: <https://www.threepanelsoul.com/comic/on-workforces>
What I am curious to learn is how many episodes of a TV series made by real actors it will take for an "AI" to eventually make perfect extensions
ie. feed it every episode of the original Star Trek series, at some point "AI" is going to be advanced enough to write a new episode and simulate all the characters perfectly
anime and animation in theory will be even easier to do perfectly?
the question is can it do it perfectly with just a dozen episodes? or does three dozen make it better?
because once that happens, that's all the networks will pay for, after all they are only about the commercials they can insert into content regardless of source
and yes viewers will eventually accept it the same way they won't quit X or meta, etc. regardless of how horrible they become or the sub-human behavior of the owners
Why wouldn't the users just generate it themselves?
on their own computer using open weight chinese models?
More seriously
1) >users will generate their own
some people write fanfic, most just watch/read instead.
2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebel_Without_a_Crew explains how film maker will film, with whatever they have. AI will enable some people to make what is not financially feasible right now for a single person to do.
'Unique' movie/stories creation will continue.
And like with the rest of things AI can do, the question is more 'who's going to pay for person-made vs "algorithmically optimized AI generated story'.
Same question we have of 'AI generated code' vs 'this code was written by a person'.
Sora was QUICKLY shut down due to the astronomical cost. On what basis do you claim that using language models to generate feature films would be cheap?
because it's too expensive. Go try out Sora to see for yourself. oh right you can't
This is exactly how I see it. Most companies participating in such games are digging their own grave long term, because of fear of someone else doing that
Why would they?
I don't think it will ever be able to make perfect extensions, because there is no perfect extension. Part of creative work is human imperfections. Part of me being invested in a series is because I know it will end at some point.
If there's infinite star trek episodes, I don't care to watch it. I'd rather spin a fidget spinner instead.
you are reacting as if the content is going to be robotic
except "AI" doesn't have any original thoughts of its own, everything is going to be originally from a human source
it might be a concept from some rare book they fed it and destroyed after, it might be a concept from thousands of "fan fic" they hoovered up all over the internet by scraping forums illegally
you say you won't watch it except human behavior already demonstrates there are millions of other people who will
it's an unfortunate future but an easily predictable one
all about making cheap content to insert ads, the ads are the point, not the content
like product placement in a $100 million action movie, except soon they will be able to make the movie for $100 instead of $100 million and most won't know the difference
I'm sorry but it sounds like you don't have a very good understanding of what art is or what role it plays in human existence. What kind of grades did you get in English class as a kid?
no it will be uncanny slop just like all the AI slop I've already had forced on me
> there are millions of other people who will
yeah millions of people like all kinds of dreck. sure, you probably liked The Big Bang Theory but some of us have taste
I'm not a fan, but it's a massive insult to compare a show written by a team of writers like The Big Bang Theory to AI generated TV slop for illiterate retards.